(1) Exiting the cemetery at the south gate (not the main gate) you enter Prospect Square and can finish the walk with a pint in John Kavanagh’s pub , known locally as the Gravediggers.
(2) The local gravedigger says he has already buried 1,000, and more bodies are found every day.
(3) She inveighs against the "gravediggers" of Brussels, whose austerity measures are held responsible for the scourge of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
(4) He too had to put up with large swaths of the French left labelling him the Socialists’ gravedigger, because of his neoliberal reforms.
(5) Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more It says DfID was too slow to respond to warnings from MSF and others because of its overreliance on the existing international public health system and its expectation that the WHO would act quickly.
(6) The hope had been if you take plasma from the recovered patient and transfuse a new patient with that plasma there would be significant effect, and this study shows there was not.” Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more The trial group’s mortality rate was compared with that of more than 400 patients treated in the same centre in the five months previously.
(7) "Four in the past week, all young ones," says Ignacio Montes, 66, the gravedigger.
(8) The macabre minutes of the secretive "central contingencies unit" show that in the face of a strike by local authority gravediggers and crematorium staff, Whitehall officials considered bringing in private contractors to do the job but feared this could lead to "unseemly scenes at cemetery gates" involving union pickets.
(9) Peter Boudgoust, the director of the SWR, has been called a "cultural gravedigger" by the general secretary of the German music council, Christian Höppner, for what he called the "cultural political catastrophe".
(10) The files show that only 80 gravediggers were on strike in Liverpool and Tameside, Greater Manchester, in January 1979 as part of public sector strikes that contributed to the last days of James Callaghan's government, although the particular dispute later spread to other towns including Brighton and Hyndburn.
(11) She says everyone waits for the hour when the gravedigger arrives and there are new bodies to identify.
(12) The proceedings opened with our theme song, a light, melancholic melody played on accordion by its composer, No 7, a gravedigger from the Umbrian town of Gubbio, where Saint Francis tamed the wolves.
Necrophore
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.
Example Sentences:
(1) No evidence of pheromones regulating oviposition, necrophoric behavior, recognition of hive mates, or many other processes found in numerous insect groups has been reported in the Acari.